Mysterious crash in OpenOffice

Hello,

I am experiencing the most curious of behavior in OpenOffice.org (both
2.0.2 and 2.0.3). I first noticed this in Calc, but it is an issue in
Writer as well (possibly other facets of the suite as well).

Whenever I attempt to do any border formatting via the "Format Cell" or
"Paragraph" interfaces, as soon as one clicks on "Border", OOo
disappears and the crash recovery screen comes up. Interestingly
enough, setting borders using the toolbar interface works just fine.

I tried running 'strace' to see output when it crashes, but the process
detaches as soon as the GUI comes up.

Has anyone seen this error before? I've tried rebooting the machine (it
had been up for a few weeks when I noticed this error), I've tried
upgrading OpenOffice.org from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, and I've tried
uninstalling and reinstalling -- all to no avail.

I should point out that under a brand new user named 'test' the problem
persists, hence it is not isolated to my particular user.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

-Matthew Hatch


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Matthew Hatch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am experiencing the most curious of behavior in OpenOffice.org (both
> 2.0.2 and 2.0.3). I first noticed this in Calc, but it is an issue in
> Writer as well (possibly other facets of the suite as well).
>
> Whenever I attempt to do any border formatting via the "Format Cell" or
> "Paragraph" interfaces, as soon as one clicks on "Border", OOo
> disappears and the crash recovery screen comes up. Interestingly
> enough, setting borders using the toolbar interface works just fine.

I am having the same problem. I am about to post a "bug" report on the
OO web site for the problem that occurs with writer. I have a copy of
2.0.3 running under Windows 2000. The problem does not occur there.

I did notice that there is a reported "bug" for this issue under calc.

>
> I tried running 'strace' to see output when it crashes, but the process
> detaches as soon as the GUI comes up.
>
> Has anyone seen this error before? I've tried rebooting the machine (it
> had been up for a few weeks when I noticed this error), I've tried
> upgrading OpenOffice.org from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, and I've tried
> uninstalling and reinstalling -- all to no avail.
>
> I should point out that under a brand new user named 'test' the problem
> persists, hence it is not isolated to my particular user.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
>
> -Matthew Hatch
>

Victor Chapman wrote:
> Matthew Hatch wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am experiencing the most curious of behavior in OpenOffice.org (both
>> 2.0.2 and 2.0.3). I first noticed this in Calc, but it is an issue in
>> Writer as well (possibly other facets of the suite as well).
>>
>> Whenever I attempt to do any border formatting via the "Format Cell" or
>> "Paragraph" interfaces, as soon as one clicks on "Border", OOo
>> disappears and the crash recovery screen comes up. Interestingly
>> enough, setting borders using the toolbar interface works just fine.
>
> I am having the same problem. I am about to post a "bug" report on the
> OO web site for the problem that occurs with writer. I have a copy of
> 2.0.3 running under Windows 2000. The problem does not occur there.

<snip>

Interestingly enough, I was able fix this issue by going BACK to
2.0.2... So the problem was there in 2.0.2, was there in 2.0.3, and
then disappeared in 2.0.2. I'm baffled to say the least.

Bleh.

-Matthew


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